Google Apps hasn't met LAPD's security requirements, city demands refund: Two years after the City of Los Angeles approved a $7.25 million deal to move its e-mail and productivity infrastructure to Google Apps, the migration has still not been completed because the Los Angeles Police Department and other agencies are unsatisfied with Google’s security related to the handling of criminal history data.

Google moves to secure searches, alienates SEO jockeys : Google will now encrypt searches for users who have logged into Google services by default, blocking information on search queries and result pages from being passed to the sites they visit—unless that site's owner has paid for search placement.